Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:33:08 +0200 | From | Edgar Toernig <> | Subject | Re: Booting linux using Novell NetWare Remote Program Loader |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > > I found out I can boot it after little games with mars netware > emulator. However I have problems booting anything else than > freedos. Trying to boot zImage directly results in crc errors or in > errors in compressed data. Too much failures and too repeatable > (althrough ram seems flakey) for me to believe its hw.
I bet that's the same problem I had booting a zImage directly from an El-Torito CD. The problem was the autoprobing for the floppy type performed by the boot loader. It detected a 2.88 drive and issued corresponding read requests (track x, 36 blocks; track x+1, 36 blocks; ...). The bios performs these request, but it emulates a 1.44 disk so the last 18 blocks of track x are actually the blocks from track x+1. In my case I did not even got a crc error but an immediate reboot.
I removed the autoprobing from bootsect.S and fixed it to 1.44MB format et voila, it worked perfectly.
Ciao, ET.
PS: Maybe that's the same problem lilo has on some systems with the linear option... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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